Improvement in wind-wheel toys



W. GDRTUN. y Wind-Wheel Toys.

Patented .lune 30, 18741k wnNEssE's:

ATTOIlI UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM GORTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIND-WHEEL TOVS.

Specification farming part of Letters Patent No. 152,555, dated June 30, 1874 application tiled March 21, 1874.

To all whom t't may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM GoRToN, of the city, county, and State of N ew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Vind-Wheels, of which the following is a specication The object of this invention is to provide means for amusing the young; and it consists in a Wheel and staff, the former being provided with a sleeve-box and pin-journal, and the shaft with one or more ferrules.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is an end view of the wheel. Fig. 2 is a crossseetion of the wheel on the line m .r of Fig. l, showin g the stai' and journal-pin.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the Wheel, composed of wings B, c011- nected with center plate C, to which plate is attached the sleeve D. The wings are placed at any desired angle, so that when'the wheel is moved rapidly through the air it will revolve. E is the journal-pin, screwed or driven ltoy wind-wheel broadly; but

,Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A toy wind-wheel, constructed as shown and described-that is, having a sleeve-box, D, journal-pin E, ferrule F, and staff I, eolnbined and arranged as set forth.

p WM. GORTON.

Witnesses:

T. B. MosHER, p ALEX.` F. ROBERTS. 

